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Non-judgmentalism and moral turpitude have driven America to the height of self-righteousness, endangering our progeny with inheriting a dissolving nation that is following the example of a corrupt world

Tides turn when life-dishonoring culture becomes endemic



History has proven that when a culture condones wanton killing as a metaphor for personal freedom, it has reached its apex and can go nowhere but down, dissolving under the weight of amorality. Yet, outside its dissolute halls of “justice” there arises a new culture that despises gratuitous death imposed on the innocent, the undeserving and the unwanted. As much as secular society prefers to ignore the most widely read book of all time, the chronicles of the Bible find corroboration in writings of contemporaneous historians. In this context, or even that of a guide for ethical behavior, the accounts carry weight as teaching tools if only we would access them.
Parables for today (because man never seems to learn and history repeats accordingly) are rife throughout its pages. One that comes most to mind is that of Ahaz, king of Judea, who succumbed to discarding Judea’s innocents in hopes of winning favor from the powerful nations surrounding him. By emulating their idolatry and human sacrifice, he gave over even his own progeny to the fires of Molech.1 The practice earned him nothing but scorn from Assyria as a weak imitator who had no principles of his own. Offering up children on an altar of self-indulgence that destroyed his health and that of his people, Ahaz doomed the nation to invasion both figuratively and literally. The amoral societies first occupied Judea with their social and religious practices and then with their physical presence, exacting onerous tribute. Accepting their social norms of drug abuse, sexual perversion and even human sacrifice earned Judea its demise. At Judea’s lowest point of depravity but highest point of egocentrism, Ahaz died and the son he had not cast into the fire came to the throne. Hezekiah rejected his father’s lifestyle and the burden of taxation that had been placed upon his people. He destroyed the altars of death festooning most every corner of Jerusalem and hilltop in the country, restored the temple and, most importantly, he prayed.2 “And the Lord hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.” 2Ch 30:20 If it isn’t obvious how we’ve fallen into a similar pattern of sacrificing our children on the altar of narcissism (ridding ourselves of them to “uncomplicate” our lives by both abortion and abandonment), emulating our enemies, and even offering tribute to those who despise us and vow our destruction (the Iran Nuclear Deal), then we have learned nothing from history.

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Perhaps the correlation to the story of Ahaz will not end with the demise of our nation, but may continue with a successor willing to raze the bloody altars and forswear self-destructive alliances, one who will help the nation regain honest freedom. Wisdom from the pages of the Bible is legendary and there are many proverbs that describe what confronts this nation. See if these words aren’t applicable…
Proverbs 29:2 When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice:
but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn. 8 Scornful men bring a city into a snare… 9 If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man,
whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest. (arguments of a progressive) 11 A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards. 12 If a ruler hearken to lies,
all his servants are wicked. 15 The rod and reproof give wisdom:
but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame. (unruly youth) 16 When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increaseth…
 18 Where there is no vision, the people perish:
but he that keepeth the law, happy is he. (the Constitution) 20 Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? (the president)
there is more hope of a fool than of him. 22 An angry man stirreth up strife,
and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.
Proverbs 17:15 He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just,
even they both are abomination to the Lord. In our time, we are repeating the utter senselessness of accepting child sacrifice (induced by abortion that damages the psyche of the woman who undergoes the procedure), by rabble-incited targeting of law enforcement (BlackLivesMatter mob prompted by Obama), and by irrational political buckling to terror regimes. Where our senselessness is wholly manifested is in how the president and his sycophants are capitulating power to lesser political forces domestic and foreign (re: Pr 29:12). Non-judgmentalism and moral turpitude have driven America to the height of self-righteousness, endangering our progeny with inheriting a dissolving nation that is following the example of a corrupt world.
  1. 2 Chronicles 28:23 “For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which smote him: and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, therefore will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.” KJV
  2. 2 Chronicles 30:18-20 18 “For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good Lord pardon every one 19 that prepareth his heart to seek God, the Lord God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary. 20 And the Lord hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.” KJV


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Former newspaper publisher, A. Dru Kristenev, grew up in the publishing industry working every angle of a paper, from ad composition and sales, to personnel management, copy writing, and overseeing all editorial content. During her tenure as a news professional, Kristenev traveled internationally as a representative of the paper and, on separate occasions, non-profit organizations. Since 2007, Kristenev has authored five fact-filled political suspense novels, the Baron Series, and two non-fiction books, all available on Amazon. Carrying an M.S. degree and having taught at premier northwest universities, she is the trustee of Scribes’ College of Journalism, which mission is to train a new generation of journalists in biblical standards of reporting. More information about the college and how to support it can be obtained by contacting Kristenev at cw.o@earthlink.net.


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